Useless and even harmful confessions of an asterisk also known as: Praise of *the ephemeral,* but maybe that's *a bit much* (editorial in the listens, because no one ever reads editorials)

For quite a while now, I’ve learned to come to terms with the elusive, fleeting nature of time, at least since I wasted time reading the Genji monogatari, which then, in the end, leaves the reader with nothing but a sense of emptiness, due to the relentlessness with which everything, without exception, passes. Even today, from the window, I see the magnolia fading, which just yesterday was making all the allergic people sneeze, and a damn harsh wind is whipping through the streets even though spring has only just poked its head out. But I’m digressing.
For personal, work-related, and concentration reasons, I had to and wanted to abandon this place for a while—certainly guilty, but legitimately so—a place I still love, only to return and inevitably find it faded, compared to what I remembered. Is it possible that in just a few months, so many users and, in some cases, friends have left this beloved relic of the internet that is no more? I don’t think the (main) reason was that pissing outside the pot by the boss about Ukraine. Maybe it’s the embarrassing use of AI (I don’t demonize AI, I work with it, but here it’s absolutely useless, come on)? Maybe we all have better things to do? Who knows.
This is just a prayer, not an invective. I’m calling out to those to whom I once, in my own way and somehow, cared for:
@[odradek]
@[CosmicJocker]
@[J onatanCoe]
@[Kyrielison]
@[hjhhjij]
@[IlConte]
@[sfascia carrozze]
@[Carlos]
@[macmaranza] (only now I discover you’ve been banned, sadly I do not know why)
@[Eneathedevil]
@[TataOgg]
@[S ilasLang]
@[tia]
@[macaco]
@[Ditta]
@[Lao Tze]
@[proggen_ait94]
@[RIBALDO] (yes, even that hick conspiracy theorist Ribaldo)
and even @[Caspasian]
and others that, inevitably, I’m forgetting come: bene: